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      Ingredients: 4 oz smoked salmon 6 oz fresh pasta 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved 1 clove garlic, chopped Black pepper, chili pepper, some fresh dill leaves or oregano 1 tablespoon olive oil A squeeze of lemon juice   Add the oil, cherry tomatoes, and the garlic in a pan.  Heat at very [...]

DUCK LINGUINE   This recipe not only has an incredible taste, but it is a traditional dish of the region Veneto in the north eastern part of Italy. More the recipe is one of the dishes eaten during the feast of Redentore that takes place every year in Venice. The feast is celebrated every third [...]

This is one of my wife’s favorite dishes.  It is so simple yet the taste is unbelievable.  It takes you back to when you were in mom’s kitchen. Serves 2 Ingredients: ½ onion extra virgin oil 2 oz cooked ham ¼ pint heavy cream 7 oz pasta (I recommend tortellini or fresh fettuccine) 4 oz [...]

Getting familiar with WordPress.  I started also the website  www.italianrecipesblog.com.  There I am going to post recipes from Italy, where I was born. Now I am living in the States and I like it very much here. The reason of writing is to share and keep a memory of 15 years’ work as a tour [...]

As we are two in the family I had half a package of pasta leftover from the pesto. So I used fettucine and not linguini. I looked at other websites and they do the recipe differently. I keep it very simple as I learned it at home. For two: 1 lemon (just the zest) 2 [...]

Penne alla vodka Although this dish is not one of my favorites yesterday at dinner I enjoyed it. It seems that it is more popular here in the States than in Italy. You don’t find it so easily any more at restaurants in Italy although it was a big hit in the eighties. Also wikipedia [...]

Ingredients: Serves four 1-3 cloves garlic depending on your taste 2 cups fresh basil leaves 3 tablespoons pine nuts (pinoli) or and walnuts. 1 dash salt and pepper at wish 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese grated or and Pecorino cheese Pesto sauce is very easy and fast to prepare. You [...]

Pasta Matriciana        All the stories you can read on the internet about bucatini alla matriciana or amatrciana are very funny. There are the ones that claim that the pasta is originally from Amatrice a place close to Rome. Others claim that this is a typical dish of Rome. For me the truth is between [...]

Serves 2 Ingredients: 7 oz pasta (rigatoni or penne) 1 cup pecorino sheep cheese black pepper to taste You can find this Pasta very often in the Roman trattorias. It is very easy to prepare. Typical pasta to use is rigatoni or penne. The trick is to save some of the pasta water once you [...]

CARBONARA   In authentic Italian cooking there is no chicken carbonara, but even in Rome there are restaurants that prepare the pasta carbonara in a wrong way. First of all the use of guanciale is very important, which you can always replace with pancetta. More important than this it is already such a rich dish [...]